Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 635-H.F.No. 1277 
           An act relating to transportation; providing for state 
          park road account funds to be used for lake access 
          roads; amending Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 
          162.06, subdivision 5. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 162.06, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 5.  [STATE PARK ROAD ACCOUNT.] After deducting for 
administrative costs and for the disaster account and research 
account as heretofore provided from the remainder of the total 
sum provided for in subdivision 1, there shall be deducted a sum 
equal to the three-quarters of one percent of the remainder but 
not to exceed the sum of $600,000 annually.  The sum so deducted 
shall be set aside in a separate account and shall be used 
for (1) the establishment, location, relocation, construction, 
reconstruction, and improvement of those roads included in the 
county state-aid highway system under Minnesota Statutes 1961, 
section 162.02, subdivision 6 which border and provide 
substantial access to an outdoor recreation unit as defined in 
section 86A.04 or which provide access to the headquarters of or 
the principal parking lot located within such a unit, and (2) 
the reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of 
county roads that provide immediate access to public lakes.  
Roads described in clause (2) are not required to meet county 
state-aid highway standards.  At the request of the commissioner 
of natural resources the counties wherein such roads are located 
shall do such work as requested in the same manner as on 
any other county state-aid highway and shall be reimbursed for 
such construction, reconstruction or improvements from the 
amount set aside by this subdivision.  Before requesting a 
county to do work on a county state-aid highway as provided in 
this subdivision, the commissioner of natural resources must 
obtain approval for the project from the county state-aid 
screening board.  The screening board, before giving its 
approval, must obtain a written comment on the project from the 
county engineer of the county requested to undertake the 
project.  Before requesting a county to do work on a county road 
that provides immediate access to a public lake, the 
commissioner of natural resources shall obtain a written comment 
on the project from the county engineer of the county requested 
to undertake the project.  Any sums paid to counties in 
accordance with this subdivision shall reduce the money needs of 
said counties in the amounts necessary to equalize their status 
with those counties not receiving such payments.  Any balance of 
the amount so set aside, at the end of each year shall be 
transferred to the county state-aid highway fund. 
     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective July 1, 1988. 
    Approved April 26, 1988